Botticelli - June 2022

Thread Games
101

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with U
  4. Dead
  5. Best known for the Arts
  6. American
  7. Died after 1950
102

#1. Take a DQ.
#2. I am not Upton Sinclair.
#3. I am not Mr. Underhill.

103

Uri Geller - objected to the psychic type Kadabra (Japanese name Yungeller) who holds a spoon.
Correct, correct

DQ:
Known for acting?

104

DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with U
  4. Dead
  5. Best known for the Arts
  6. American
  7. Died after 1950
  8. Not known for acting
105

IQ1: Did you write The Left Hand of Darkness?
IQ2: Did you retire as a very successful college football head coach, then come out of retirement to become a spectacularly unsuccessful NFL head coach?
IQ3: Are you a very 'umble law clerk?

106

#1. I am not Ursula K. Le Guin.
#2. Take a DQ.
#3. I am not Uriah Heep.

107

Previous IQs:

Were you an early UN Secretary-General? - Yes, U Thant of Burma
Were you a top Kennedy Administration diplomat? - Alexis U. Johnson (always used his middle initial)
Did the Alan Parsons Project have a song about you on their first album? - Yes, Roderick Usher, from the Poe tale, on Tales of Mystery and Imagination

DQ:

Best known for the visual arts?

IQs:

Did Stephen King say you were one of the best fictional villains ever?
Were you an ancient king referred to in a Sherlock Holmes tale?
Do some people think your first name was Penda, and others, Nyota?

108

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DQs:

  1. Real
  2. Male
  3. First name starts with U
  4. Dead
  5. Best known for the Arts
  6. American
  7. Died after 1950
  8. Not known for acting
  9. Best known for the visual arts
109

Take 2 DQs.
#3. I am not Uhura.

110

Correct
Urban Meyer - had a 187-32 record in the NCAA, got fired mid-way through his only NFL season (2-11)
Correct

DQ: Known for painting/sketching/drawing?

111

IQ1: Did Walt Disney piss you off by taking most of the credit for your co-creation?
IQ2: Is your real name Tuco?
IQ3: Were you voiced by Pixar’s “good luck charm” in both Incredibles films?

112

Yes, I am

Ub Iwerks!

Well played, ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness!

113

Well done, CFOHG!

Previous IQs:

Did Stephen King say you were one of the best fictional villains ever? - Dolores Umbridge in the Harry Potter books
Were you an ancient king referred to in a Sherlock Holmes tale? - Uffa, in “The Five Orange Pips”
Do some people think your first name was Penda, and others, Nyota? - Yes, Lt. Uhura

114

Great! I could have sworn I played him before, but search doesn’t turn up anything. Maybe I thought about playing him, but never did.

Catch up…#2 - The Ugly, from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
#3 - The Underminer

After consulting the letters used list, I will be N

115

IQs:

  1. Do you say “Satisfactory” when you are pleased and “Pfui” when you’re not?
  2. Are you a musical comedy character based on Arnold Rothstein?
  3. Are you usually the protagonist in the highly acclaimed all-leather 1950’s BBC radio series The Goon Show?
116

Take 3 DQs

117

N it is.

IQs:

Did you go up against Lord Cornwallis at the Battle of Guilford Court House?
Did you earn an unwanted nickname during the Civil War when enemy troops captured a lot of your supplies?
Did you allegedly say that a winning commander should “get there the fustest with the mostest”?

118

2 DQs
Not Nathan Bedford Forrest

119

Nathanael Greene, Nathanael “Commissary” Banks, and yes, Nathan Bedford Forrest.

Nathan[ ] x3!

DQs:

Real?
Male?

IQs:

Are you known for your poetry anthologies?
Was Hagrid very sorry to see you go, but knew it was for the best?
Were you Sluggo’s pal in the comics?

120

#1 is Nero Wolfe.
#2 was Nathan Detroit, from Guys and Dolls.
#3 is Neddie Seagoon!

DQ: Last name starts with N?

2 DQs reserved.